Eating disorders in adolescents: A background paper
Year: 1995
Type: review
Abstract: Although eating disorders primarily affect adolescents and young adults, much of the recent medical and psychiatric literature fails to consider the unique physiologic, psychologic, and developmental issues relevant to younger patients, more often describing older patients with more chronic and intractable disease. Pediatricians and adolescent medicine specialists see younger patients who have a shorter duration of illness and a different set of physiologic and psychologic responses to weight control. The Practice Guidelines for Eating Disorders, published in 1993 by the American Psychiatric Association (1), provide an excellent overview of the
Source: Journal of Adolescent Health
Institutions: Cornell University, North Shore University Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Schneider Children's Hospital, University of Toronto, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Rochester Medicine, University of Rochester, University of Washington, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Stanford Medicine, Stanford University, University of Minnesota
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,670
OpenAlex ID: W2063264744